Cron in Linux: history, use and structure

There is an age-old classical saying that happy people don’t watch the clock. There weren’t any programmers or Unix operating systems in those pre-civilisation times, but in our day programmers know for sure that cron is watching the clock for them. For me, command-line utilities are both a passion and…

Scalable remote management of embedded Linux devices via WebSockets

In this post, we explore how Airtame devices communicate with Airtame Cloud via WebSockets and how we scaled our backend systems to handle increasing numbers of users and devices. …